Tuesday 13 July 2010

Seeing Shrek 4 - NOT, A Tearful Girl, Stanford University, Sports Day Certificates.

Today we were intending to go to see Shrek 4. Because I'd stayed up all night I went to bed at 11:00 to catch a few hours before the cinema so that I wouldn't end up sleeping through the film...as I did, apparently, according to Nat, did during Mission Impossible 3! Well I duly got up when the others got home and we jumped in the car at 4:30 in order to be at the Vue for 4:45. What a delightful surprise awaited us; Nat has a card, in fact two, from Nat West that allows him to have an "Orange Wednesday" any day of the week. What we hadn't realised was that, always read the small print, in order to qualify for "two for the price of one" the film you wish to see has to have been on General release for a minimum of two weeks. Shrek 4 was released on the Thursday 1 July and so therefore does not meet this criteria until tomorrow Wednesday 14 July. So it turned out that we didn't go to the cinema today after all!
Poor old Shantelle came to see Hannah this afternoon, after we'd got back, in floods of tears. Her Mum is getting remarried soon and today  Shantelle's bridesmaids dress arrived. Now she is a little over weight and it turned out that the zip on the dress couldn't be done up. Her Mum, it seems, probably already pretty stressed by all the preparations, lost it big time and told the poor little thing that she was fat and had ruined her wedding because of this. You can imagine the effect this had and when her Mum's new chap didn't intervene to defend her this made things worse. Deb ended up giving her a cuddle and reassuring her but it wasn't nice and my heart bled for her. Eventually she calmed down and afterward she and Han and Harlene all went upstairs to watch a video.
Finally, after nearly a year of knowing about it, Nat and I sat together and watched the first Stanford University Software engineering video. He managed to get most of the way through it but eventually got bored because the first video contained allot of material relating to the course as it applied to campus students. What I did do, when it was over, was finally get round to downloading the course software from Stanford and installing it on the PC. This proved to be a more fiddly exercise than it first appeared but eventually I got it all up and running. Now we can watch the next video and start programing Karel the Robot.
While I was doing the install Nat went upstairs and continued to build a Halo game on his X-box. He later came downstairs and took me back up with him to show me what he'd done. It was very impressive,  in collaboration with Jacob, he had built a new and original game site where humans were pitted against zombies.
Han was finally given her Sports day certificates at school today and below are some photos of her with them.

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